{"id":95879,"date":"2026-06-22T07:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/netanyahu-idf-will-remain-in-lebanon-until-the-threat-is-removed-what-would-america-do\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T07:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:42:24","slug":"netanyahu-idf-will-remain-in-lebanon-until-the-threat-is-removed-what-would-america-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/netanyahu-idf-will-remain-in-lebanon-until-the-threat-is-removed-what-would-america-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu: IDF Will Remain In Lebanon &#8220;Until The Threat Is Removed&#8230; What Would America Do?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem on Sunday, where he pledged the IDF would remain in Southern Lebanon &#8220;until the threat is removed,&#8221; asking: &#8220;What would America do?&#8221;  Here is Netanyahu&#8217;s full speech on Sunday:   <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yRD8ff3yj3c?si=PnV8NXXYo0j1YElv\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>  His comments:   <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: As long as we need to protect our people, we will remain in the security zone in south Lebanon.  And the reason, the reason is perfectly understood. No country would be asked to do otherwise.  Now, you imagine the United States across the border. You have thousands, an army of thousands of terrorists who pelt your cities and your towns with rockets and ballistic missiles and killer drones. They kill your soldiers. They kill your citizens. They kill your children. And they threaten them every day.  Well, what would America do? Would it say, Well, there&#8217;s nothing we can do. Let&#8217;s hold our fire? Is that what America would say?  No. You know damn well what America would do. It would cross the border, create a security zone, kill the terrorists, and protect its people until the threat is removed. That&#8217;s exactly what we are doing.  And let me tell you something else: No country would do it better. No country would do it better, because the terrorists do not just target civilians, they also hide among their own civilians. They are, by the way, committing a double war crime in doing that.  So the question is, what do you do about it? We target the terrorists. But there are some civilian casualties in every such war, in every such urban warfare. And normally, the ratio of combatants to noncombatants killed is about 7 to 18 to 1.  In Gaza, it was much, much lower than that, despite all the lies and vilifications aimed at Israel.  But I asked our people, our research arm in the Defense Ministry, I said, What is the ratio in Lebanon?  And they said to me, Prime Minister, it&#8217;s 5 to 1.  No, not five civilians killed for every terrorist. Five terrorists killed for every civilian that is harmed in the process. Five to one. Unheard of, unheard of, because no army goes to such lengths like the Israeli army to target terrorists and minimize civilian casualties.  We should be commended for it, not condemned.  We do everything in our power to protect our people. We don&#8217;t have a war with Lebanon. We have a war with Hezbollah, who terrorizes Lebanon and seeks our destruction.  And when that proxy of Iran is no longer a threat, when it&#8217;s dismantled, when it&#8217;s disarmed, yes, we&#8217;ll have peace with Lebanon. And I look forward to signing it.  &#8230;  And we are determined, we are resolved to protect our country, whatever the cost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/06\/21\/netanyahu_israel_will_not_leave_lebanon_--_what_would_america_do.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem on Sunday, where he pledged the IDF would remain in Southern Lebanon &#8220;until the threat is removed,&#8221; asking: &#8220;What would America do?&#8221; Here is Netanyahu&#8217;s full speech on Sunday: His comments: BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: As long as we need to protect our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3185,15012,10582,7015,2302,2579,45,201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}